der Sinn
Meaning in English: sense, meaning
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Es hat keinen Sinn, jetzt noch zu streiten.
There's no point arguing now.
Der, die or das?
Sinn is masculine: der Sinn. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Sinn in the top 5,000
These forms of Sinn are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das ist nicht im Sinne des Erfinders.
That's not what it was meant for.
How common is Sinn?
Sinn is number 2,055 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 words. Its most frequent form is Sinne (#937).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Words built on Sinn:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,051der Downloaddownload
- 2,052vielmehrrather, on the contrary
- 2,053die Mobilitätmobility
- 2,054verschiedener(of) various, different (inflected)
- 2,055der Sinnsense, meaning
- 2,056die Pflichtduty, obligation
- 2,057geschütztprotected
- 2,058das Fachsubject; compartment; field
- 2,059die Anerkennungrecognition, appreciation
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,055
- The most common German nouns#833
- German B1 vocabulary#660
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#224
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.